Nobody Cares about Britain

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The Tories had big plans of making tons of money with crypto bros - of course it went wrong.

Senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal.

Leaked documents show Tory executives discussed exploiting members’ personal data to build a mobile phone app that could track users’ locations and allow big brands to advertise to Conservative supporters. The party would take a cut of sales.

The project was considered over several months last year, with the aim of launching the “True Blue” app in time for the party’s conference in October.
The idea was developed by the boss of a cryptocurrency firm with a string of failed businesses behind him. Yet senior Conservative officials appeared so captivated by the plan that they prepared to provide the party’s database of members in order to move the proposal forward.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/04/tories-planned-to-make-millions-from-members-data-with-true-blue-app

 

[Tirellia]

I usually see thejuicemedia's Australian content, but I came across this one today. Absolutely perfect analysis.

 

[Soen Eber]

The Tories had big plans of making tons of money with crypto bros - of course it went wrong.

Senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal.

Leaked documents show Tory executives discussed exploiting members’ personal data to build a mobile phone app that could track users’ locations and allow big brands to advertise to Conservative supporters. The party would take a cut of sales.

The project was considered over several months last year, with the aim of launching the “True Blue” app in time for the party’s conference in October.
The idea was developed by the boss of a cryptocurrency firm with a string of failed businesses behind him. Yet senior Conservative officials appeared so captivated by the plan that they prepared to provide the party’s database of members in order to move the proposal forward.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/04/tories-planned-to-make-millions-from-members-data-with-true-blue-app

I though most Europeans (and Britains!) prized their personal and data privacy very highly? Or is this just a French and German thing?

 

[Sheera Khan]

While Europeans do prize their privacy, the Tories prized the money above the privacy of mere members of the party - I guess the data of the like of Sunak, Rees-Mogg aso. wouldn't be included...

edit: clarification of "that" by inserting "the privacy of" ...

 

[Erich Templar]

"The idea was developed by the boss of a cryptocurrency firm with a string of failed businesses behind him."

Surprise!

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Evernote link

"Honeytrap sext scandal MP William Wragg will keep Tory whip"

I appreciate them letting him keep the whip. No mention of handcuffs so far....

 

[Casey Pelous]

"Honeytrap sext scandal MP William Wragg will keep Tory whip"

I appreciate them letting him keep the whip. No mention of handcuffs so far....

The proof of the handcuffs is left as an exercise for the reader.

 

[Sid]

I though most Europeans (and Britains!) prized their personal and data privacy very highly? Or is this just a French and German thing?

It is an EU thingy.
And since the UK is no longer part of it.. EU legislation is not automatically an UK thingy too.

One of the reasons for the Tories to get out was to be able to loosen certain EU rules and regulations.

 

[Free]

lol


Maglink

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

lol


Maglink

I just had to look it up. WHY DID I LOOK THAT UP???

 

[Free]

I just had to look it up. WHY DID I LOOK THAT UP???

I dunno. You could have just asked.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I dunno. You could have just asked.

Except it turns out I didn't want to know the answer.

 

[Free]

Except it turns out I didn't want to know the answer.

 

[Isabeau]

I looked it up but found nothing.

Unless you mean this?

 

[Free]

I looked it up but found nothing.

Unless you mean this?

Simple links to youtube get an automatic nope from me (who are you trying to fool?).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Thanks, Obama...

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The benefits of digitalization: in the UK the wrong pair has been divorced. Divorces are nowadays fully automated in the UK, lawyers are just entering the data into a system and within of 30 minutes or less the divorcees get the confirmation that it is done and legally binding.

A law firm has entered the wrong client data into that system, and about 2 days later noticed that. So the wrong pair, who didn't ask for it, has been legally divorced.

The funny thing about it is that now this wrongly divorced pair has put the case on trial. Why? Quite simple: this pair wanted to get divorced, but they were still in disputes about the height of alimonies. The divorced man is happy about this cheap divorce now and refuses to undo it, arguing that what's done is done. His ex wife of course is of other opinion, since she gets not the alimonies she wanted. Her ex husband just countered that she in that case should not have given her law firm full power of attorney.

Wrong couple divorced after computer error by law firm Vardag's

A judge says the order cannot be overturned but the law firm says this verdict is a "bad decision".

www.bbc.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

A statue for Tonibler in Kosovo!